Nadav Amir-Himmel is an award winning composer and pianist born in 1985, Israel. Nadav won the first prize, as well as a special prize for the best free composition and a special prize for the best composition based on models, in The Dvorak third international competition, 2012. In March, 2013 Nadav was invited to Carnegie Mellon University and to Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, to give lectures about his music and to give a first performance of his Baroque Piano Concerto.